Bad Hips - Quality of life - Page 5

Very mild dysplasia?

One cannot protect oneself from total ignorance, or the gossip and lies the bitches throw on the World Wide Web. One cannot stop the vultures on the internet. It’s a question to me why people constantly try to misrepresent my story, 3 kilometers become 3 miles, severe dysplasia is minimized to ‘fast normal’, scientific pictures from the university become horror, etc.

As I feel no need to comment stupidities (and my websites tell the truth, and show the “mildness” of my dog’s HD – how ignorant can one be?) I rest my case with a poem. François Villon says it all. (Some basic intelligence is primordial to get the message.)

En riagal, en arsenic rocher,
En orpiment, en salpêtre et chaux vive,
En plomb bouillant pour mieux les émorcher,
En suif et poix détrempée de lessive
Faite d'étrons et de pissat de juive,
En lavailles de jambes à meseaux,
En raclure de pieds et vieux houseaux,
En sang d'aspic et drogues venimeuses,
En fiel de loups, de renards et blaireaux,
Soient frites ces langues ennuyeuses !

En cervelle de chat qui hait pêcher,
Noir et si vieil qu'il n'ait dent en gencive,
D'un vieil mâtin qui vaut bien aussi cher,
Tout enragé, en sa bave et salive,
En l'écume d'une mule poussive
Détranchée menue à bons ciseaux,
En eau où rats plongent groins et museaux,
Raines, crapauds et bêtes dangereuses,
Serpents, lézards et tels nobles oiseaux,
Soient frites ces langues ennuyeuses !

En sublimé dangereux à toucher,
Et ou nombril d'une couleuvre vive,
En sang qu'on voit ès palettes sécher
Sur les barbiers quand pleine lune arrive,
Dont l'un est noir, l'autre plus vert que cive,
En chancre et fic, et en ces claires eaues
Où nourrices essangent leurs drapeaux,
En petits bains de filles amoureuses
(Qui ne m'entend n'a suivi les bordeaux)
Soient frites ces langues ennuyeuses !

Prince, passez tous ces friands morceaux,
S'étamine, sac n'avez ou bluteaux,
Parmi le fond d'unes braies breneuses ;
Mais, par avant, en étrons de pourceaux
Soient frites ces langues ennuyeuses !

Jantie, you know very well that was not the original xray you posted to this board.

Also, Jantie, do not ever again refer to me as a "bitch", you are obviously a little chauvenist who can't take any sort of disagreement from females. Deal with it.

I am done with this now, Indy was your dog,  you did with him as you planned to do all along. It is just not right of you to come here and paint a picture of gloom and doom for every person with a dog that has dysplastic hips.  These people come here looking for help and you offer only nothing but the worst possible scenario. Many dogs have no problems and go on to lead  long, happy lives if their owners have common sense. You will never know if Indiana could have been one of those dgos since you chose to not give him the chance and to have him PTS with your pushing the plunger - why did  you think it was necessary to tell the world that you did that?  Now  you are even to the point of showing these people an xray that was definitely not the original one posted to this board. It shows a dog with severe unilateral HD while the original one showed a dog with mild unilateraal HD>\. Too bad those first xrays were deleted off this board, but I'm sure you know that.

From looking at the xray posted by Jantie today, I would say that the dog appears to have had one hell of a lot more going on with his left hip than HD.

It does not require rocket science or a radiologist to see  that there has been severe trauma to the affected coxofemoral joint: (1) the acetabular rim appears to have to have a compound fracture (looks like a displaced slab fracture to me--resulting in a non-healing sequestrum) and (2) the tip of the left ischium is blunted/compressed.

These abnormalities are definitely not a consequence of HD. No wonder the poor dog suffered progressive arthrosis.

Shame on you, Jantie, your story (and your French verse) doesn't hold water. Indiana was injured, the injury was not diagnosed/addressed,  and he was murdered by you.

Indiana did not require euthanasia. While surgical repair of the joint may not have been efficacious, amputation of the entire limb was an option. Dogs can live comfortable, pain-free lives on three legs.

The first xray he posted showed trauma on that side, Louise, but there was not nearly as much remodeling and arthritic changes then. In fact, several here commented on it, but Jantie never addressed that either although asked several times - could Indiana have suffered an injury to that hip as it looks as if he did.

Lily Dexter,  Thank you for your informative post.  I would like to focus on something you said - "Also remember dogslive for the day, they don't worry about tomorrow or how much an illness may affect them.  Find games to play that don't imvolve stressing the limbs". As we grow up we forget to play games with our dogs. Mine have always loved hide and seek - you either sit stay them or have someone hold them and go hide ( closet, behind a door, in the shower, in a dark corner , if your young and fit - under the bed).  Whistle when set and the search is on.  It's fun watching the different search styles and when you surprise them the look on their face. I've had one find me while the other still continues to dash madly about just absolutely sure you were in the last place they saw you.   As a kid we lived on a pond with an old farm collie. In the summer one of our past times was throwing rocks into the pond and she would dive and retrieve the exact rock we threw in and take it back and create her own little "rock pile". I now know this was an incredible feat of under water scent detection - much like what cadaver dogs do in the water but as a kid it was just fun.

I hope we can each share some of the games we play with our dogs. Hopefully this thread will not be further hijacked as so many are by Jantie.